AWS re:Invent 2024 held in Las Vegas from December 2nd to 6th, is a learning conference hosted by AWS for the global cloud computing community. The in-person event features keynote announcements, training and certification opportunities, access to 2,000+ technical sessions, the Expo, after-hours events, and so much more.

Day 1 - 12/02/24

7:30PM Keynote address - Peter DeSantis - SVP, Utility Computing (AWS)

Peter DeSantis, continues the Monday Night Live tradition of diving deep into the engineering that powers AWS services.

Day 2 - 12/03/24

8:30AM CEO Keynote address - Matt Garman - CEO at Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Matt Garman, CEO of Amazon Web Services, shared how AWS is innovating across every aspect of the world’s leading cloud. Explore how AWS are reinventing foundational building blocks as well as developing brand-new experiences, all to empower customers and partners with what they need to build a better future.

Announcements

Compute

Graviton4: The next generation of AWS's custom silicon delivers 30% more compute per core and 3x the memory compared to Graviton3, achieving significant cost and energy savings for their customers.

Trainium2 Instances: Now generally available, these purpose-built instances offer 30–40% better price-performance than current GPU instances for demanding AI workloads.

Trainium2 Ultra Servers: Combining 64 Trainium2 chips, these servers boast 83 petaflops of power per node, enabling unprecedented performance for ultra-large model training, as demonstrated by Anthropic's Project Rainier with a 5x compute boost.

Storage and Data Management

S3 Table Buckets: Optimized for Iceberg tables, these buckets offer 3x better query performance and 10x higher transactions per second compared to general-purpose S3 buckets, ideal for data lakes and analytics workloads.

S3 Metadata: This feature automatically generates and updates object metadata, simplifying real-time data discovery and querying within S3 buckets.

Database

Aurora D-Seq: A distributed SQL database offering low-latency global transactions, 5-nines availability, and serverless scalability, surpassing Google Spanner in multi-region setups with 4x faster performance.

Generative AI & Bedrock

Automated Reasoning Checks: Ensures factual accuracy by mathematically verifying large language model outputs, crucial for high-stakes applications like insurance claims.

Bedrock Agents with Multi-Agent Collaboration: This new feature empowers agents to collaborate on complex workflows, sharing insights and coordinating tasks seamlessly.

Data Analytics Revolution

S3 Tables: Revolutionizing data analytics on Apache Iceberg, building upon the success of Parquet.

S3 Metadata: Simplifying data discovery and understanding at scale within S3 buckets.

AI Development

SageMaker Unified Studio: A single development environment for data discovery and cross-functional workflows in AI and analytics, integrating tools from various AWS services like EMR, Glue, Redshift, Bedrock, and SageMaker Studio.

Nova: AWS's new family of multimodal generative AI models designed for diverse applications in text, image, and video generation.

Nova Reel: Generates six-second videos from prompts or reference images with customizable camera motions like pans and 360° rotations.

Day 3 - 12/04/24

8:30AM Keynote address - Swami Sivasubramanian, Vice President, AI and Data (AWS)

Dr. Swami Sivasubramanian, VP of AI and Data at AWS, presents this thought provoking keynote about how you can use a strong data foundation to create innovative and differentiated solutions for your customers. Hear from customer speakers with real-world examples of how they’ve used data to support a variety of use cases, including generative AI, to create unique customer experiences.

Announcements

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Day 4 - 12/05/24

8:30AM CTO Keynote - Dr. Werner Vogels VP and CTO Amazon

Dr. Werner Vogels, Amazon.com's VP and CTO, joins us for his thirteenth re:Invent appearance. In his keynote, Werner shares the critical lessons and strategies he has learned for managing increasingly complex systems. The keynote explores the core principles for embracing complexity, drawing on Amazon’s experiences building distributed systems at massive scale.

Announcements

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